Sloan Defense of the West

Transatlantic security from Truman to Trump, Second edition
2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5227-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester University Press

This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloan, Stanley R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Freedman, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Lawrence Freedman

Part I: Cold War alliance
1 The transatlantic bargain and defense of the West
2 Genesis of the bargain
3 The transatlantic bargain revised
4 The bargain through the Cold War, 1954–1989
5 The United States and Europe at the end of the Cold War: some fundamental factors

Part II: Post-Cold War alliance
6 The 1990s: transitions and challenges
7 The 2000s: turbulent transatlantic ties
8 The 2010s: new tasks, new traumas

Part III: Defense of the West
9 External threats and internal challenges
10 Can the West survive?

Appendix 1: The North Atlantic Treaty: Washington D.C. – April 4, 1949
Appendix 2: Active Engagement, Modern Defence, NATO Strategic Concept, November 20, 2010

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About the author
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley R. Sloan is a Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College, Vermont and a Senior Fellow in the Scowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council of the United States